Buffalo Bill, Scout of Scouts - Part 2. Isaac Cody Moves to Kansas.

Panel 1: “Isaac Cody, the father of the famous Buffalo Bill, like the life of the frontier, and in 1852, when Iowa became crowded with settlers, he moved westward into Kansas, taking young Billy with him and leaving the rest of his family at his brother Elijah’s farm in Missouri.”
Panel 2: “In Kansas, the elder Cody erected a trading post at Salt Creek Valley in the northern part of Leavenworth County not far from the Kickapoo Indian Reservation.”
Panel 3: “Over the trail that led from Fort Leavenworth to the Pacific coast traveled thousands of fortune hunters on the way to California, and Mormon emigrants moving to Utah and the heavy traffic made the business of selling supplies quite profitable.”
Panel 4: “At the trading post little Billy Cody first saw the picturesque trappers and scouts of the plains, and the boy was fired with the ambition to be one of them when he grew up. Tomorrow – Billy and the Indians.”

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Panel 1: “Isaac Cody, the father of the famous Buffalo Bill, like the life of the frontier, and in 1852, when Iowa became crowded with settlers, he moved westward into Kansas, taking young Billy with him and leaving the rest of his family at his brother Elijah’s farm in Missouri.”
Panel 2: “In Kansas, the elder Cody erected a trading post at Salt Creek Valley in the northern part of Leavenworth County not far from the Kickapoo Indian Reservation.”
Panel 3: “Over the trail that led from Fort Leavenworth to the Pacific coast traveled thousands of fortune hunters on the way to California, and Mormon emigrants moving to Utah and the heavy traffic made the business of selling supplies quite profitable.”
Panel 4: “At the trading post little Billy Cody first saw the picturesque trappers and scouts of the plains, and the boy was fired with the ambition to be one of them when he grew up. Tomorrow – Billy and the Indians.”

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